Containers roadmap?

Containers roadmap?

[Chris R. Jones]

One more question for the experts:

Is there any roadmap out there for when we can see containers support in 
kernels for the major distributions (RHEL or SLES in our case)?

When will the feature be enabled by default in the linux kernels?
(containers options aren't enabled by default in 2.6.29.1, for instance).

We've done some prototyping to get our application working with containers and 
really like the solution.  But so far we've had to build our own kernel and 
and really need to use kernels that come with the distribution.  

Any rough estimates when that will be the case?

Thanks,
Chris

Re: Containers roadmap?

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Chris R. Jones (chris-SqNQQPNds68nxqbYAscKCQ@public.gmane.org):
> One more question for the experts:
> 
> Is there any roadmap out there for when we can see containers support in 
> kernels for the major distributions (RHEL or SLES in our case)?
> 
> When will the feature be enabled by default in the linux kernels?
> (containers options aren't enabled by default in 2.6.29.1, for instance).
> 
> We've done some prototyping to get our application working with containers and 
> really like the solution.  But so far we've had to build our own kernel and 
> and really need to use kernels that come with the distribution.  
> 
> Any rough estimates when that will be the case?

I'm not gonna speak for any distros, but I definately can say that
the Fedora 11 beta has all the kernel features enabled.  Network
namespaces, even devpts namespaces.

-serge